Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Elihu Root

I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Doug Stanhope

You're born absolutely free except for laws of nature, if you drink you get drunk, that's a law, if you get old you die, that's a law too; if you sit on a tack you will bleed from the ass, these are the only laws that you're born with.

Claude Bernard

Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.

Diogenes

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Dick Francis

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

Dick Gregory

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Desmond Tutu

Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.

Raquel Welch

People do stop me and talk to me about something they saw that they loved. It is very satisfying, but I have my own opinions.

James Nesbitt

People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

Phyllis Pedrizzetti

People don't want to work that hard. You can't just take over. You have to start your own business. It's not like starting a 7-Eleven.

Cindy Mannes

People don't want to tell you they have them.

Gary Shaw

People don't want to come in. They feel they're unsafe in the shopping area.

Lucy Ivins

People don't want to be managed, they want to be led.

Josh Homme

People don't want their actors acting like musicians.

CeeLo Green

People have always questioned, Was I crazy? And I'm like, 'No, I'm not crazy. I'm just totally committed.'

Asif Kapadia

People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.